Word Finder - communication

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The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.

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communication of a secret

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The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.

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Some say that communication is a necessary prerequisite for sentience; others say that it is a result thereof.

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A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.

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Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications.

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The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.

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The subpoena required that the company document their communication with the plaintiff.

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An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.

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The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.

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A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.

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A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.

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A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.

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Association; company.

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Participation in Holy Communion.

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A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".

Better communication is a huge step toward peace.

Poor communication leads to war.

Soon I felt the need of some communication with others and began to make crude signs.

It was the communication that mattered, not the words.

Maybe she was the one with the communication problem.

The returns from the copper fields in the state are at present a little over half a million sterling per annum, and would be still greater if it were not for the lack of suitable fuel for smelting purposes, which renders the economical treatment of the ore difficult; the development of the mines is also retarded by the want of easy and cheaper communication with the coast.

She smiled, comforted by the familiarity of his unique communication style.

Let's always keep the lines of communication open between us.

Telegraphic communication with Europe is effected by cables laid along the Uruguayan and Brazilian coasts, and by the Brazilian land lines to connect with transatlantic cables from Pernambuco.

Difficulty of communication was still a barrier, and technology was still highly limited.

The Great Southern railway has a line to the seaward end of the pier, and affords direct communication with the interior of the colony.

It was upon Livonia that his eyes were fixed, which was comparatively near at hand and promised him a seaboard and direct communication with western Europe.

Maybe she should tell him — keep the line of communication open.

The lines of communication had been hacked in two.

Communication is thus most wanted with the northern and south-eastern extremities of the island, and between Tortoli and Nuoro, and Nuoro and Golfo degli Aranci.

Here Morton encouraged Buckingham's designs against Richard, and put him into communication with the queen dowager, Elizabeth Woodville, and with Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond.

It seems fitting to end this part of the list—ways that information and communication will help end war—by noting that every day, every moment, more and more people have access to the Internet.

In all their years together, they'd never been out of communication more than a few days.

Xander sensed the silent communication.

The access pad was useless, the clothing unit jammed, the communication monitor too covered with handprints from her searching to work right.

So complete is the watershed that no streams pass through these ranges, and there is hardly any communication in this direction between the interior of Asia Minor and the coast.

The island is now the seat of a Greek bishopric. There is communication with the mainland by occasional vessels.

Before 1888 the only means of communication was by road.

There is no communication between the nephridia on one side and the other, but in Eupolia there are ducts opening into the alimentary canal as well as to the exterior, a condition of things which recalls what obtains in certain Oligochaetes.

The introduction of trades-union representatives on the Supreme Labour Council, the organization of local labour councils, and the instructions to factory inspectors to put themselves in communication with the councils of the trades-unions, were valuable concessions to labour, and he further secured the rigorous application of earlier laws devised for the protection of the working-classes.

Reconciliation never took place on any large scale, though it is true that, in the course of time, some fitful displays of administrative ability on the part of the Chinese, and the opening of partial means of communication, led to the pacification of a section of the Sheng fan, who thenceforth became known as Pe-pa-hwan (Pepohoan).

Two lines of steamboats afford regular communication between San Juan and New York; one of them runs to Venezuelan ports and one to New Orleans; and there are lines to Cuba and direct to Spain.

In 1764 a new post route between New York and Philadelphia passed through what is now the city, and direct ferry communication began with New York.

The king of Navarre, who defended this deed, had, however, many friends in France and was in communication with Edward III.; and consequently John was forced to make a treaty at Mantes and to compensate him for the loss of Angouleme by a large grant of lands, chiefly in Normandy.

The trade with Abyssinia suffers owing to the absence of railway communication, which the neighbouring French colony possesses.

Manning advanced from Obbia in February 1903, and in March got in touch with the northern column, the line of communication stretching over 500 m.

After these events the Obbia line of communication was closed up, and Manning's force concentrated at Bohotle.

The mullah now broke away to the north, and, crossing the line of the British communication, established himself in the Nogal district.

He restored its water communication with the Nile by making the Mahmudiya canal, finished in 1820; and he established at Ras et-Tin his favourite residence.

The probability of a French invasion in August was increased by the renewal of the war in May, Emmet's brother Thomas being then in Paris in communication with Talleyrand and Bonaparte.

Communication with the islands is maintained by steamers from Leith and Aberdeen to Lerwick, the capital (twice a week), and to Scalloway, the former capital, and other points (once a week).

Off the south-east shore lies the Holm (160 ft.), with which communication used to be maintained by means of the Cradle of Noss swing or ropes.

The chief industrial establishments are iron foundries, railway and motor engineering works, breweries, flour-mills, tanneries and manufactories of confectionery, artificial manure, &c. There is water communication by the Ouse with the Humber, and by the Foss Navigation to the N.E.

Poor means of communication have always been a great handicap to the industries of the island.

In January 1902 the German group holding the Anatolian railway concession was granted a further concession for extending that railway from Konia, then its terminus, through the Taurus range and by way of the Euphrates, Nisibin, Mosul, the Tigris, Bagdad, Kerbela and Nejef to Basra, thus establishing railway communication between the Bosporus and the Persian Gulf.

All this, and the almost mutinous discontent of his generals and his enemies of the court circle, shook his resolution of acting as anvil for the Russians, of whose delay also he was aware, and about the 8th of Octoberhedetermined to march out north-eastward across the French lines of communication and save his sovereign's army by taking refuge if necessary in Saxony.

On the 23rd of December operations were commenced, but the difficulties of securing information and maintaining communication between the respective columns, so unlike what any of the French had previously encountered, led to a very partial success.

The latter by this movement, however, uncovered his own communication with Russia, and the emperor was quick to seize his opportunity.

Practically the lines of communication along the Danube were denuded of combatants, even Bernadotte being called up from Passau, and the viceroy of Italy, who driving the archduke Johann before him (action of Raab) had brought up 56,000 men through Tirol, was disposed towards Pressburg within easy call.

Kutusov was hovering on the outskirts of the city, his main body at Kaluga, some marches to the S.W., where he was in full communication with the richest portion of the empire; and now news arrived that St.

On the 25th of January, Blucher entered Nancy, and, moving rapidly up the valley of the Moselle, was in communication with the Austrian advanced guard near La Rothiere on the afternoon of the 28th.

But on the 4th of February Blucher, chafing at this inaction, obtained the permission of his own sovereign to transfer his line of operations to the valley of the Marne; Pahlen's corps of Cossacks were assigned to him to cover his left and maintain communication with the Austrians.

Bagdad is in communication with Europe by means of two lines of telegraph, one British and one Turkish, and two postal services.

Further extensions of this meaning are to an explanation, comment or addition, added in the margin or at the foot of the page to a passage in a book, &c., or to a communication in writing shorter or less formal than a letter.

Through its excellent water communication it affords an outlet for the agricultural produce of the district, and forms an entrepot of trade between Bordeaux and Toulouse.